{"id":21857,"date":"2017-11-29T11:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=21857"},"modified":"2017-11-29T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:26:21","slug":"radio-wibg-womens-voices-from-the-mediterranean-the-state-of-play-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=21857","title":{"rendered":"Radio WIBG: Women\u2019s voices from the Mediterranean: the state of play in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nela Pamukovic<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2008, women activists founded the Mediterranean Women\u2019s Fund (MedWF)<\/a> to support and strengthen women\u2019s organizations around the Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean Women\u2019s Fund (MedWF)<\/a> has adapted its action to the new needs of Mediterranean women\u2019s organizations. Relying on networking and collective intelligence training for activists, the MedWF has worked on developing strategies to respond to the continuous attacks on women\u2019s rights. In its efforts to provide a comprehensive support to these organizations the fund has organized meetings to gather women activists in six countries, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Croatia, Libya, and, last summer, France. They invited a delegation from Croatia, Rada Boric and Nela Pamukovic, to describe the situation and priorities of their women\u2019s group.<\/p>\n

Rada Boric and Nela Pamukovic are Croatian members of the Women\u2019s Court<\/a> created in 2010 in the Balkans. The Women\u2019s Court is a space where women\u2019s voices are heard; women can give their testimonies of the injustices they have experienced during the war and after. It is a space where resistance is organized.<\/p>\n

Croatian women\u2019s groups\u2019 members have been on every front since the war in the Balkans in the 1990s, during which women were used as weapons of war. Since then, women, such as Nela Pamukovic, have organized<\/a> to have this humiliating and devastating crime recognized as a war crime. About 20 years after the war\u2019s end, Croati passed a law meant to compensate survivors of sexual war violence. Thus far, few women have been able to obtain that status and receive their rightful regular financial stipend. Meanwhile the war criminals have been released for good behavior, often being praised as Croatian heroes. They now \u00a0even receive government benefits and social welfare.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/croatia-1-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Croatian women have also fought on the turf of sexual and reproductive rights to protect women facing the increasing involvement of the church in the political arena. Church politics is based on the subordination of the woman\u2019s body, constraining access to contraception, to abortion, as well as undermining the justice process for cases of sexual harassment, rape and all sorts of violence.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/nella-croatia-2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Although women compose 51% of Croatia\u2019s population, they find their status to be in line with that of minorities.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/croatia-3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Rada Boric<\/p><\/div>\n

Brigitte Marti in collaboration with\u00a0MedWF<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a050 50 magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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(Photo Credit 1: Global Fund for Women<\/a>) (Photo Credit 2: One Billion Rising<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2008, women activists founded the Mediterranean Women\u2019s Fund (MedWF) to support and strengthen women\u2019s organizations around the Mediterranean region. The Mediterranean Women\u2019s Fund (MedWF) has adapted its action to the new needs of Mediterranean women\u2019s organizations. Relying on networking and collective intelligence training for activists, the MedWF has worked on developing strategies to respond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5725,880,6054,6044,6056,6055,1617,5085],"class_list":["post-21857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-50-50-magazine","tag-brigitte-marti","tag-croatia","tag-mediterranean-womens-fund","tag-nela-pamukovic","tag-rada-boric","tag-resistances","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21858,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}